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Focusing on private sector workplaces in Britain, we investigate whether the employment of older workers has implications for workplace performance. We find no significant association between changes in the proportion of older workers employed and changes in workplace performance. We find some...
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union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …
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Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely positively correlated with employee job attitudes pre-recession. However, high intensity HPWS has...
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Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with workplace financial performance and the implementation of workplace organizational change. The...
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workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … – which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages – circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms.On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …
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The 2008 Great Recession was notable in the UK for three things: the enormity of the output shock; the muted unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity is within sector and within firm before presenting new...
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Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages … and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher …
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Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with high-productivity...
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-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous immigration-induced labor supply shock on local wages and employment of natives …. On average, the supply shock leads to a moderate decline in local native wages and a sharp decline in local native …
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potential for wage-push inflation. However, real wages are falling rapidly at present and, prior to that, real wages had been …
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